In recent months, Detroit’s water department “has conducted an aggressive shut-off campaign to get more than 90,000 customers to pay $90.3 million in past due bills,” reports Anna Clark for The New York Times. While the city has the obligation to demand payment of outstanding bills, “cutting water to homes risks a public health crisis,” […]
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Our opinion: A new gas drilling process sounds like it holds promise. But New York needs to be sure it’s really as great as its public relations. It seems simple enough: Before you do something underground, be sure you’re not going to ruin a vital natural resource — like drinking water, for starters. And get a […]
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Our opinion: New EPA regulations for mercury emissions have been imposed at last. Cleaner air, cleaner water and economic opportunity is more possible than ever. The last days of 2011 offer those concerned about the air we breathe and the waterways we enjoy all the more reason to celebrate. They might party like it’s, oh, 1990. […]
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The planet has a water crisis and it’s getting worse, warns Charles Kenny in Foreign Policy. What worsens the problem is that water is free, so Kenny proposes that if we had to pay for every drop, water would be treated with as the valuable resource it is.
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Our opinion: The EPA toughens the rules on power plant emissions. A cleaner environment means longer lives. Remember the date — July 7, 2011. A decade or so from now, when some of the most sensitive natural areas in America are well on their way to recovery from a once relentless barrage of acid rain, pollution and […]
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You’ve heard of peak oil, but have you considered peak water? In Salon, Charles Fishman digs deep to explore what he says is soon to become a serious issue not only for the world, but the United States, and that is a growing shortage of fresh water.
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Water is the next oil, says Jeneen Interlandi in Newsweek. Privatizing an inelastic resource like water, one that we need to survive, will harm people all over the globe, Interlandi says. What we urgently need, Interlandi writes, is water management that won’t leave the poor out to dry.
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